This will make a global neo4j object available, where you can access the v1 API at neo4j.v1:

var driver =neo4j.v1.driver(

'bolt://localhost',

neo4j.v1.auth.basic('neo4j','neo4j')

)

It is not required to explicitly close the driver on a web page. Web browser should gracefully close all open
WebSockets when the page is unloaded. However, driver instance should be explicitly closed when it's lifetime
is not the same as the lifetime of the web page:

driver.close()

Usage examples

Driver lifecycle:

// Create a driver instance, for the user neo4j with password neo4j.

// It should be enough to have a single driver per database per application.

var driver =neo4j.driver(

'bolt://localhost',

neo4j.auth.basic('neo4j','neo4j')

)

// Close the driver when application exits.

// This closes all used network connections.

driver.close()

Session API:

// Create a session to run Cypher statements in.

// Note: Always make sure to close sessions when you are done using them!

var session =driver.session()

// Run a Cypher statement, reading the result in a streaming manner as records arrive:

zero or more onNext followed by onCompleted when operation was successful. onError will not be invoked
in this case

zero or more onNext followed by onError when operation failed. Callback onError might be invoked after
couple onNext invocations because records are streamed lazily by the database. onCompleted will not be invoked
in this case

Parallelization

In a single session, multiple queries will be executed serially. In order to parallelize queries, multiple sessions are required.

Building

npm install
npm run build

This produces browser-compatible standalone files under lib/browser and a Node.js module version under lib/.
See files under examples/ on how to use.

Testing

Tests require latest Boltkit to be installed in the system. It is needed to start, stop and configure local test database. Boltkit can be installed with the following command:

pip install --upgrade boltkit

To run tests against "default" Neo4j version:

./runTests.sh

To run tests against specified Neo4j version:

./runTests.sh '-e 3.1.3'

Simple npm test can also be used if you already have a running version of a compatible Neo4j server.

For development, you can have the build tool rerun the tests each time you change
the source code:

gulp watch-n-test

Testing on windows

Running tests on windows requires PhantomJS installed and its bin folder added in windows system variable Path.
To run the same test suite, run .\runTest.ps1 instead in powershell with admin right.
The admin right is required to start/stop Neo4j properly as a system service.
While there is no need to grab admin right if you are running tests against an existing Neo4j server using npm test.

A note on numbers and the Integer type

The Neo4j type system includes 64-bit integer values.
However, JavaScript can only safely represent integers between -(253- 1) and (253- 1).
In order to support the full Neo4j type system, the driver will not automatically convert to javascript integers.
Any time the driver receives an integer value from Neo4j, it will be represented with an internal integer type by the driver.

Write integers

Number written directly e.g. session.run("CREATE (n:Node {age: {age}})", {age: 22}) will be of type Float in Neo4j.
To write the age as an integer the neo4j.int method should be used:

To write integers larger than can be represented as JavaScript numbers, use a string argument to neo4j.int:

session.run('CREATE (n {age: {myIntParam}})',{

myIntParam:neo4j.int('9223372036854775807')

})

Read integers

Since Integers can be larger than can be represented as JavaScript numbers, it is only safe to convert to JavaScript numbers if you know that they will not exceed (253- 1) in size.
In order to facilitate working with integers the driver include neo4j.isInt, neo4j.integer.inSafeRange, neo4j.integer.toNumber, and neo4j.integer.toString.

var aSmallInteger =neo4j.int(123)

if(neo4j.integer.inSafeRange(aSmallInteger)){

var aNumber =aSmallInteger.toNumber()

}

If you will be handling integers larger than that, you should convert them to strings:

var aLargerInteger =neo4j.int('9223372036854775807')

if(!neo4j.integer.inSafeRange(aLargerInteger)){

var integerAsString =aLargerInteger.toString()

}

Enable native numbers

Starting from 1.6 version of the driver it is possible to configure it to only return native numbers instead of custom Integer objects.
The configuration option affects all integers returned by the driver. Enabling this option can result in a loss of precision and incorrect numeric
values being returned if the database contains integer numbers outside of the range[Number.MIN_SAFE_INTEGER, Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER].
To enable potentially lossy integer values use the driver's configuration object: